Novelist Pamela Duncan will read from and discuss her novels at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, Sept. 20, at the Jackson County Public Library. Duncan was born in Asheville and raised in Black Mountain, Swannanoa and Shelby, and currently lives in Cullowhee, where she teaches creative writing at Western Carolina University. Her first novel, Moon Women, was a Southeast Booksellers Association Award Finalist, and her second novel, Plant Life, won the 2003 Sir Walter Raleigh Award for Fiction. She is the recipient of the 2007 James Still Award for Writing about the Appalachian South, awarded by the Fellowship of Southern Writers.  Her third novel, The Big Beautiful, was published in March 2007. She is currently at work on The Wilder Place, a novel set in western North Carolina. Duncan will read selections from her work and discuss the process of writing. A question-and-answer session and an autographing will follow.

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